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Good Night, Sweet Prince
Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World
“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
After Writing About Mental Illness, Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
A Classic of Golden Age Detective Fiction Turns 100
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
Did She Cheat? A Century Later, a Novel’s Mystery Still Stumps.
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
The Best Romance Novels of the Year (So Far)
Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.
What Book Should You Read Next?
Finding a book you’ll love can be daunting. Let us help.
Toad-Laced Psychopathy Is One Hell of a Drug
Kimon de Greef’s “The Ego Trip” is an enthralling, galling journey into the deeply weird underbelly of the psychedelic renaissance.
These College Friends Are Bound by Idealism but Divided by Action
Claudia Rankine’s latest autobiographical work, “Triage,” asks how best to effect change in the world.
She Believed Big Tech Could Change the World. Just Not for the Worse.
In “Don’t Be Evil,” Claire Stapleton, a former Google spin doctor, tries to make sense of her time in the industry.
Two Teenage Girls Sneak Out to Go to a Bonfire. Only One Comes Home.
The Italian best seller “All That Is Left of Life” is a cinematic family drama set in the summer of 1980.
Questions Mount Over a Star Scholar’s Life and Career
A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not everyone believes him.
Mary de Rachewiltz, Ezra Pound’s Daughter and Defender, Dies at 101
Sent away as a baby, she remained loyal to her famous father, translating his poetry while fighting to distinguish his literary legacy from his fascist politics.
The Immigrant Workers Who Keep New York’s Restaurants Running
Food books by chefs and celebrities arrive by the landslide. “Voices From the Kitchen” highlights workers who get far less attention.
America’s Most Divisive Historian Gets a New Biography
Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose “A People’s History of the United States” has sold millions of copies.
She Remembers Life-Changing Events That May Never Have Taken Place
In Fiona Mozley’s novel “Awake Awake,” a London writer returns to her hometown to unearth hazy memories of past friendships and traumas.
A Self-Help Influencer With Troubles of Her Own
Millions look to Nicole LePera for advice on how to achieve contentment and maintain healthy relationships. But her own story is complicated.
Everything Is Wonderful. Keep Scrolling if You Don’t Believe Me.
In “The Story of Your Life,” Kathryn Jezer-Morton explores, without castigating, the wish to present a curated version of experience via social media.
Can This Battle-Scarred Dog Ever Find His Way Home?
Paul Yoon’s deeply moving novel “Etna” explores the aftermath of war with an unconventional narrator.
‘I Deeply Believe Dogs Have Superpowers and Secrets’
Prompted by a fierce attachment to his own pet, Paul Yoon wrote a harrowing yet hopeful novel, set during wartime, told from a canine perspective.
Come for the Monsteras, Stay for the Murders
“Plant Lady,” by the Korean novelist Minyoung Kang, imagines an urban haven for women who need an escape from dangerous men.
They’re Making a Horror Film. The Monsters Aren’t Only in the Movie.
In Riley Sager’s “The Unknown,” actresses on a research trip stumble into a paranormal mystery.
Mildred Pitts Walter, Author of Books for Black Children, Dies at 103
Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.
John Esposito, Who Challenged Negative Views of Muslims, Dies at 86
Starting out in the 1970s as a rare American expert on political Islam, he became a prolific scholar and a prominent public intellectual.
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’
Douglas Stuart’s latest novel follows a profoundly isolated father and son, each grappling with long-held secrets.
How Emily Wilson’s Takedown of ‘The Odyssey’ Ignited a Debate
Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Greek classic influenced the director Christopher Nolan, panned his screenplay for the movie version in an essay for The London Review of Books.
Book Club: Read ‘London Falling,’ by Patrick Radden Keefe, With the Book Review
In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Patrick Radden Keefe’s dazzling investigation into the death of a British teenager.
22 Books Coming in August
Gripping thrillers, hockey romance, political history, an Appalachian Trail memoir and more.
Ma Ingalls: An Appreciation (Sort Of)
How I went from being Team Pa to recognizing Laura Ingalls Wilder’s less charismatic, quietly heroic and equally crazy creation, Caroline Ingalls.
Are We Living in the Wildest Natural Epoch Yet?
In “The Savage Landscape,” the nature writer Cal Flyn argues that wilderness is just one more man-made invention.
6 New Books We Love This Week
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
What Was the Yuppie? A Historian Has Thoughts.
“We live in the world we inherited from them,” the author Dylan Gottlieb says.